Malachi 4:4-6

The Great Day of the Lord

4 b "Remember c the law of my servant Moses, the statutes and rules 1 that I commanded him at Horeb for all Israel.

5 d "Behold, I will send you e Elijah the prophet f before the great and awesome day of the Lord comes. 6 And he will g turn the hearts of fathers to their children and the hearts of children to their fathers, lest I come and h strike the land with a decree of utter destruction." 2

  1. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 4:9 - 10
    Only take care, and keep your soul diligently, lest you forget the things that your eyes have seen, and lest they depart from your heart all the days of your life. Make them known to your children and your children's children -
  2. Cross References
    Exodus 20:3 - 17
    You shall have no other gods before me.
    Deuteronomy 4:10
    How on the day that you stood before the Lord your God at Horeb, the Lord said to me, 'Gather the people to me, that I may let them hear my words, so that they may learn to fear me all the days that they live on the earth, and that they may teach their children so.
  3. Cross References
    Malachi 3:1
    Behold, I send my messenger, and he will prepare the way before me. And the Lord whom you seek will suddenly come to his temple; and the messenger of the covenant in whom you delight, behold, he is coming, says the Lord of hosts.
  4. Cross References
    Matthew 11:14
    And if you are willing to accept it, he is Elijah who is to come.
    Mark 9:11
    And they asked him, "Why do the scribes say that first Elijah must come?
    Luke 1:17
    And he will go before him in the spirit and power of Elijah, to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just, to make ready for the Lord a people prepared.
  5. Cross References
    Joel 2:31
    The sun shall be turned to darkness, and the moon to blood, before the great and awesome day of the Lord comes.
  6. Cross References
    Luke 1:17
    And he will go before him in the spirit and power of Elijah, to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just, to make ready for the Lord a people prepared.
  7. Cross References
    Isaiah 11:4
    But with righteousness he shall judge the poor, and decide with equity for the meek of the earth; and he shall strike the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips he shall kill the wicked.
    Zechariah 5:3
    Then he said to me, "This is the curse that goes out over the face of the whole land. For everyone who steals shall be cleaned out according to what is on one side, and everyone who swears falsely shall be cleaned out according to what is on the other side.
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